{"id":373,"date":"2011-11-05T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-11-05T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:21:51","slug":"snow-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Snow In November!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We \u00a0received quite a few phone calls and emails this morning asking how we survived last nights atrocious weather as the news agencies have picked it up so I thought it was good idea to update the blog.<\/p>\n<p>The frost alarm went off shortly before midnight\u00a0 so it was all systems go (or so we thought).<\/p>\n<p>Just when we were about to crank up at 1am thick cloud rolled in and the wind picked up.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nRather pleased about this until all of a sudden it started to snow!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s right, SNOW!<br \/>\nSo for the rest of the night we were on edge as we watched the the snow fall and then the sky clear.<br \/>\nEvery time the sky would clear we would go to crank up and then the snow would start again!<br \/>\nThis cycle of snow and then clear skies continued throughout the night until 6am when we finally cranked up after the snow stopped \u00a0and the temperature dropped\u00a0 to just below freezing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The snow that fell on the Orchard has melted away \u00a0but there is still a truckload of it on the mountain range as the photos I took an hour ago show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"novembersnow2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" title=\"novembersnow1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/novembersnow1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We \u00a0received quite a few phone calls and emails this morning asking how we survived last nights atrocious weather as the news agencies have picked it up so I thought it was good idea to update the blog. 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